Pierre-Yves Menet is Casting & Recycling R&D group manager at C-TEC, Constellium Technology Center in Voreppe, France. Pierre-Yves graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris with a master in material science and engineering. In his career, he has held several positions from innovative research and development to industrialization of new casting processes and products as well as existing casting process optimization. His focus and motivation have been on developing process automation to insure safety, quality and operation efficiency, and on developing understanding of the casting process through numerical modeling. In the past 4 years, he has been dedicated to developing novel decarbonization options for aluminium casthouses.